Sunset Song review – a lively if melodramatic take on Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s classic novel
Morna Young’s new adaptation, directed by Finn den Hertog, captures the earthiness of rural life in early 1900s Scotland, but it needs to dig deeper
July 2023
Doctor Who’s Ncuti Gatwa on stage: the Time Lord treads the boards – in pictures
Before his high-profile roles in Sex Education, Barbie and Doctor Who, Ncuti Gatwa spent years on stage. Here are some of his roles
December 2022
Readers’ favourite stage shows of 2022
Cinderella review – a heroine with some real welly
October 2022
Don Quixote: Man of Clackmannanshire review – the knight-errant mounts a mobility scooter
Dundee Rep This modern-day take on Cervantes’ classic novel follows the ageing Donald who has had enough of daytime television, tea and biscuits
September 2022
The Steamie review – memories of postwar Glasgow speak to the present
Tony Roper’s 1987 play conjures a vanished world whose hardship and longing for community feel nonetheless familiar
November 2021
No turkeys allowed! 25 of the best shows to book for Christmas 2021
Looking for a jolly good trip to the theatre this winter? Here’s our pick’n’mix selection of musicals, pantos and festive spectaculars, featuring circus tricks, high kicks and puppet rodents
October 2021
The Enemy review – Ibsen goes digital
The Enemy review – Ibsen thrust into the social media age
September 2021
Wings Around Dundee review – dive into the city’s uncomfortable past
John McCann’s imaginative play follows its characters’ search for answers to tough questions during lockdown – watched over by a pair of very unusual seagulls
June 2021
Political Mother: The Final Cut; The Life and Times review – Shechter and Clevillé on film
Hofesh Shechter’s groundbreaking 2010 work has lost none of its power, while Scottish Dance’s Joan Clevillé revels in a single take
May 2021
Culture in peril
Scottish theatres say reopening not viable under Holyrood Covid rules
Two-metre minimum distancing rules cap audiences at a tiny fraction of capacity and hamper tours too, say venues
July 2020
Theatres that made us
Theatres that made us: 'We felt giddy seeing our poster up!'
Chloë Moss remembers the joy of shopping for props for Liverpool Playhouse, while Rosie Kay reflects on her love affair with Birmingham Hippodrome
June 2020
Letters: Jill Gascoine the stage actor
Philip Hedley writes: Though Jill Gascoine made her greatest mark on TV, she retained her respect for the theatre
April 2020
Jill Gascoine obituary
Stage and screen actor who played DI Maggie Forbes in the pioneering TV police drama The Gentle Touch in the 1980s
February 2020
Smile review – Dundee United's 'football pervert' brought to hilarious grimacing life
Title-winning coach Jim McLean is played with raging mastery by Barrie Hunter in a two-hander that pulls some punches
December 2019
UK's regional theatre at risk amid funding cuts, say directors
A year after Liverpool Everyman’s rep company collapsed, questions remain over local theatre’s future
November 2019
Oor Wullie review – help ma boab, it's a braw musical!
The Scottish comic-strip transfers to the stage in a witty show addressing cultural anxieties about belonging, driven by a rock, gospel and bhangra score
September 2019
Tay Bridge review – adventurous story of ghost-train-in-waiting
Peter Arnott’s brilliant vignettes about a 1879 railway bridge disaster imagine the lives and hopes of passengers stalked by death
September 2016
The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil review – a superb revival
John McGrath’s influential play about the history of the Highlands lives up to expectations
